I FOLLOWED with detached amusement as the election campaigns of Sir Bill Beaumont and Agustin Pichot fizzled out amid a tsunami of disinterest from the rugby public.
Even the rugby media failed to capitalise on the situation, probably because of the lack of any real detail in either “manifesto” and also because disentangling club vs country and north vs south interests is a maze in which many may disappear but few may emerge.
Incidentally we would be up in arms if a General Election result announcement was to take as long… why the delay until May 12?
The reality is that m...